Beggar culture should be clean from the mindset of those in govt.
- Imphal Times Editorial :: December 14 2017 -

Former Chief Minister of Manipur Okram Ibobi Singh, now leader of the opposition party in the state legislative was heard talking tough to the present N. Biren Singh led government over its failure to bring any sort of special package for the development of the state during a protest demonstration demanding revelation of the contents of the Frame Work Agreement.

What he is trying to prove is that N. Biren Singh led government is not efficient enough to bag financial package to the state of Manipur even though the political party he belongs to is heading the government at the center?

Well, Okram Ibobi Singh statement perhaps is not wrong.

In around eight years of BJP led government led by Chief Minister N. Biren Singh still have not received any financial package for taking up developmental works in the state, even as there has been much promise to sanction various package for taking up developmental project.

Financial package is a much for taking up any sort of development project - everybody understand. During the 15 years congress rule in the state of Manipur when Ibobi was th Chief Minister and when the Congress party is leading the government at the center, there were no shortage of financial package, as there were no dearth for bagging to those concern central government authority.

During the 15 years of Congress rule under the then chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh various development programme has been taken up.

The only problem is that, in his fifteen years regime none of the developmental works including, creation of new infrastructure for the welfare have not been completed even today.

The ISBT and even the Manipur Legislative Assembly secretariat Office and other official set up at Capitol project were inaugurated before the construction is completed.

Forget about the various district hospitals constructed at various district head quarters of the state which were left incomplete even as the time frame provided for construction of the infrastructures have been lapsed.

Report of the Comptroller of Auditor general had highlighted various misappropriations and official source had revealed that some of the developmental fund sanction had to be halt as the concern department failed to submit utilization certificates.

Even the DIPR office complex which is being constructed at Keishampat was left incomplete for years and it is a blessing for the that the new Minister in Charge of the new Government Th. Bishwajit took serious concern and finally it is after the new government under the Chief Minister N. Biren Singh comes to power that incomplete structures of the building has been started construction once again.

When Chief Minister N. Biren Singh takes oath as the Chief Minister of the state many of the sanction project were seen left incomplete.

Financial assistance for taking up of almost all the developmental programme being taken up during the previous government period has already been sanction. In some of the case the second instalment for the construction have to be halt as the then government had failed to submit utilization certificate in time.

In 8 months periods, the N. Biren Singh led administration had completed almost all infrastructure development works which were left incomplete for reason best known to the previous government.

A committed government should left the habit of begging and instead it should rather find way to collect revenue of the state from every available resource available in the state.

As of now the govt. seems to be doing everything by exploring every revenue resource. Now the government should focus to recover the black money from those which had misappropriated govt fund and added it for taking up developmental works of the state instead of begging the centre.